Light posting tomorrow/friday.

You probably won't see much out of me tomorrow evening and Friday. I'm off to home in Brookings and then down to Sioux Falls for some diagnostic testing for my youngest.

I haven't talked about it much other than mentioning a couple of emergency trips over to Brookings for medical reasons. What's going on is that in the recent past (last year), my youngest experienced a couple of seizures. I'd note that she's been receiving medication since, and has not had another one to date.

But then there's the other thing.

What my wife and I are finding out after concern for the seizures has long passed is that at the age of two, my daughter has a condition being tentatively diagnosed as apraxia.

What is apraxia? According to the apraxia-kids website:

Childhood Apraxia of Speech is a motor speech disorder. For reasons not yet fully understood, children with apraxia of speech have great difficulty planning and producing the precise, highly refined and specific series of movements of the tongue, lips, jaw and palate that are necessary for intelligible speech.

Which you can read more on here.

Basically, it means that she has trouble with the motor control necessary to produce advanced speech. At this time, my daughter certainly seems to have no learning problems. It's just that she has trouble expressing herself in terms of direct speech. We get "dadee", and "ma ma" and many other words, but it's at an age where we should be getting some basic sentences.

Just imagine a temperamental, headstrong, red-headed two-year-old who has difficulty expressing what she wants verbally. Obviously, she's also receiving speech therapy.

So, my wife and I are going to try to figure out whether our daughter's seizures and apraxia are related or exclusive of each other. As mentioned, you probably won't see a lot of posting out of me, because I'm otherwise occupied.